Roy Ward Baker

Roy Ward Baker

Born 19/12/1916 London, Anglie, UK

Died 06/10/2010 (93 years old) London, Anglie, UK

Biography

He first worked as a teaboy for the Gainsborough Studios in London, before quickly becoming an assistant director. During World War II, he worked in the Army Kinematograph Unit under writer and producer Eric Ambler, who, after the war, offered him to direct the thriller The October Man. During the 1960s and 1970s, he directed several films for Hammer Studios, including the classics Quatermass and the Pit (1967) and Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971).

Festival international du film fantastique de GĂ©rardmer

Director

Movies
1988

Minder: An Officer and a Car Salesman (TV movie)

1984

The Masks of Death (TV movie)

1981

The Monster Club

1974

Mission: Monte Carlo

 

The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires

1973

And Now the Screaming Starts!

 

The Vault of Horror

1972

Asylum

1971

Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde

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1970

Foreign Exchange (TV movie)

 

Scars of Dracula

 

The Vampire Lovers

1969

Moon Zero Two

 

The Spy Killer (TV movie)

1968

Journey Into Midnight

 

The Anniversary

 

The Fiction Makers

1967

Quatermass and the Pit

1963

Two Left Feet

1962

The Valiant

1961

Flame in the Streets

 

The Singer Not the Song

1958

A Night to Remember

1957

The One That Got Away

1956

Jacqueline

 

Tiger in the Smoke

1955

Passage Home

1953

Inferno

1952

Don't Bother to Knock

 

Night Without Sleep

1951

The House in the Square

1950

Highly Dangerous

 

Morning Departure

1949

Paper Orchid

1948

The Weaker Sex

1947

The October Man

Series
1992

The Good Guys

1983

The Irish R.M.

1982

Q.E.D.

1981

The Flame Trees of Thika

1980

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson

 

The Case of the Luckless Gambler (E20)

 

The Case of Smith & Smythe (E19)

 

The Case of the Deadly Tower (E18)

  more episodes (2)
1979

Danger UXB

 

Minder

1978

Return of the Saint

1972

Spyder's Web

 

The Persuaders!

 

The Ozerov Inheritance (E22)

 

Read and Destroy (E20)

 

The Protectors

1971

Jason King

 

The Persuaders!

 

Someone Like Me (E07)

 

The Gold Napoleon (E02)

1969

Department S

 

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)

 

Who Killed Cock Robin? (E06)

 

But What a Sweet Little Room (E02)

1968

Journey to the Unknown

 

The Avengers

 

Split! (S06E05)

 

The Champions

1966

The Avengers

 

The Thirteenth Hole (S04E18)

 

The Girl from Auntie (S04E17)

 

Room Without a View (S04E15)

 

Silent Dust (S04E14)

 

The Baron

1965

The Avengers

 

Too Many Christmas Trees (S04E13)

 

Two's a Crowd (S04E12)

 

The Town of No Return (S04E01)

1964

Gideon's Way

1963

The Human Jungle

1962

The Saint

 

Zero One

Actor